KAPOK - any good as a fire starter?? 🤔🔥🔥🔥
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I got some 'Natural Kapok' to test out as tinder to start a camp fire. Have a look how I got on...🔥
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Just like with anything new, there is a learning process...I too was amazed at how fast it went up in flame...sure is a good show starter...good to see these options being tried in "real" life!
Yeah, I’ve never seen anything light so easily! 😊
I wanted to give it a good try out. I’ve still got a load left so might have another go at some point using a different approach.
Thanks for watching! 👍
Hello Mark, the kapok works a lot like dryer lint, I add a cotton pad with petroleum jelly on it to slow down the burn, just like the birch bark. Both useful and entertaining thanks for sharing All the Best ~John
Thanks John! I knew you guys would have experience of stuff like this!
Glad you enjoyed 😄
- ATB, Mark 👍
I suppose were you adrift at sea and happened across an Island you could shred your vintage life vest, pull out the Kapok and use a lighter to get a fine fire ablaze. I hope all this made your tea taste better! Thanks for the video.
Exactly! 😄
..and that’s the only time I’d use it!
Glad you enjoyed the video. It was fun to make. 😊👍
Good stuff Mark, reminds me of bull rush fluff, never used it as a tinder tho. Interesting stuff though. Rob
Yeah Rob, someone else said bulrush. I prob should look into how people typically use that. 👍
Birch Bark for the win every time! LOL. At least the KAPOK is good for catching a spark. Used in conjunction with the Birch Bark, it was a pretty smooth system!
Haha! Yeah, not so impressed with the kapok. 😄
Was an excuse to light a fire though so all good! 🔥👍😊
Hey Mark I was gonna say you need more brittle kindling. What I call tinderling then the kindling. 1-2 up and away. There was suspense in that. All the best. Mark
I know Mark. When I was editing I did think that stuff was too big. Should be tinder to match sticks to pencils then you’re away. But TBH, that kapok is so crap it still wouldn’t have worked.
Fire lighting is not as easy as it looks. It’s something you’ve got to learn. There are a lot of things in life you could put a lot of time in to learn. Lighting a fire is one of the very few I’m happy to spend as much time on as it takes.
Thanks for coming back with some more stuff Mark! I’m always up for hearing your thoughts! Peace brother 👊
@@hikingwithrosy I know you know really Mark. Yeah, I don't do loads of it but have for many years and enjoy fire lighting when I'm at it. A pleasure to share thoughts always dude.
Blinking 'eck. I'd have given up well before you did. But, we know what not to try now, ha.
😂
Yeah, watch and learn on this channel! 😄
I really wanted it to work, and it caught so well! Never mind. Bit of fun trying.
- ATB, Mark 👍
🔥🔥🔥🤠, Aussie 'paperbark' - Melaleuca tree bark- it goes up like a frenchmans hands at the first sight of a German uniform! 😜👍.
Birch bark & bullrush head if I was firelighting in Europe👍. Kapok, grass, dead nettle or raspberry stems then your twigs🤠🔥👍
HaHa! So politically incorrect! I love it! We can prob even get away with that here now we've finally left the dreaded! I need to get out and play with more stuff for sure. So much nature, so little time! 😀
- ATB, Mark 👍
Nah, they can 'ave some because them & Italy recently vetoed Astra Zeneca vaccine which had been allocated for Australia😡! How quickly people forget being rescued from tyranny......😒
Wilderness Nomad has got over 20 firestarting method / tinder videos if you need inspiration.
Know what you mean about the tyranny mate. Pretty sick of European politicians constantly slagging off the yanks when if it wasn’t for them and the rest of the Allies there wouldn’t be any European politicians! We’re best out of it I think.
Wow that really catches fast! Is a shame how quickly it burns out though
Yeah, rubbish really. 😄
As some more learned commenters on here are saying though there may be ways of making it work. If not, I’ll put it in a drawer and get out next Christmas for my Father Xmas outfit! 🎅🏻
@@hikingwithrosy yeah I suppose there must be some ways to making it last. Maybe coating it in wax like those other homemade fire lighters!
Yep! That would probably work. I might try that. I’ve still got loads of old bits of candles.
Good idea! You have now been officially added to the learned commenters list! 😄👍
I would think it’s just for taking a spark in bad weather to help get some other fuel going like a feather stick or something
Yeah, I think you’re right. It does light amazingly easily! 👍
Looks an acts like Cattail.. You can use can use it in a bird's nest or you can take Vaseline or petroleum jelly whatever name you'd like to use and put a little bit on it.. the petroleum jelly will make it burn longer..🇺🇲🤠
That’s a good idea adding Vaseline. I’ll try that. I’ve seen people use cattail but not tried it yet. We have bulrushes here which I think is the same as cattail or at least very similar.
Thanks man! Great comment 👍
If you get chunks of it and dip it in melted candle wax or melted vaseline then it will stay lit for a long time
That’s a good idea. I’m gonna try that. It needs something to slow the burning for sure! 😄
Thanks Craig 👍
@@hikingwithrosy Great.. I've not done the candle wax one yet but I'd probably leave a bit of it clean to catch the spark to start to melt the wax. The vaseline one just takes a spark 👍 Good luck.
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Watch the beginning of this vid from haze. He does the vaseline trick 👍
You where very persistent! Never seen this before my guess would be that since it is a very light compact product it might be intended to use with something else in damp conditions as you tried.
I put up a quick 51 second video on my channel on the spur of the moment today done on my phone so probably awful shows the Rough fort a 1500 year old Rath outside town.
Yeah, I think you’re right Derek, needs to be used with something else.
I’ll got look at your vid now 🏃♂️😊👍
Use small amount kapok and fatwood shavings no fail
Thanks! I will try that! 👍👊
Put very small amount o kapok down first then use the back of ur knife to scrape very fine dust on top of kapok and havestarting with smaller kindling or fatwood and even in rain will burn and enable starting
Where did you find your kapok I'm in florida USA and it's pretty expensive
Never seen such poor attempts. Sorry but i really haven't.